What does ucla.edu track?
Before any consent, ucla.edu loaded 5 tracking companies and set 5 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 78% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.ucla.edu once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 5
- Third-party hosts
- 24
- Cookies in total
- 9
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 12 companies it contacted before consent were social media companies.
- Google Ads2 requestsAdvertising
www.google.de, stats.g.doubleclick.net
- Meta20 requestsSocial media
scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com, scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com, scontent-iad3-2.cdninstagram.com, scontent-iad3-2.xx.fbcdn.net
- TikTok5 requestsSocial media
p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com, p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com
- YouTube2 requestsSocial media
www.youtube.com
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- tintup.com25 requestsUnclassified
api.tintup.com
- syrenis.io3 requestsUnclassified
cdn-us1.syrenis.io, cscript-use.syrenis.io
- tru.am2 requestsUnclassified
tru.am
- Google6 requestsFunctional
www.google.com, cse.google.com, clients1.google.com
- Amazon Web Services8 requestsContent delivery
s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com, s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com
- Cloudflare2 requestsContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
- jsDelivr1 requestContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _ga, from Google Analytics, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| _ga | Analytics | ucla.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_6BMZK7EYHE | Analytics | ucla.edu | 13 months |
| gateway_session | Unclassified | www.ucla.edu | Under a day |
| __Secure-YNID | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| YSC | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | Session |
| XSRF-TOKEN | Necessary | www.ucla.edu | Under a day |
The page also wrote 1 key to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
Understanding this page
- How to see which cookies and trackers a website loads
A hands-on walkthrough for checking what a site sets before you've clicked anything, using Chrome and Firefox's built-in tools, plus how CookieTosser automates the same check every month.
- What counts as valid cookie consent in the EU
The rules that actually govern cookie banners — the ePrivacy Directive, the GDPR consent standard, the Planet49 ruling, the strictly-necessary exemption, and what "reject" has to offer compared with "accept.
- Consent management platforms explained
What a CMP banner is actually doing behind the scenes, how the IAB's TCF standard and Google's Consent Mode v2 fit in, and why a banner being present is no guarantee that nothing loads before you answer it.